Dear V. D.! I wrote to you the other day*. I am writing again today because I have received very troubling news, suggesting as it were that there are some difficulties on your side. I do not understand what the difficulties are about. I do not know what the matter is 269. We cannot be left without information like this,—and then complaints are made against us that the work is being held up. Why should like-minded comrades not work together in the newspaper, since there is agreement on the main point, on the necessity of not allowing even a trace of the gentlemen Potresovs and the rest of that rabble from "Nasha Zarya"? And there is agreement on this. We are writing today our opinion concerning the inclusion of the third (after all, there was a direct condition that the third place belongs to us) 270. I am informing you so there be no misunderstandings. The third has a third of decisive significance—is this a lot? Are you against it? I hope not.

I very much wish that the matter be settled without friction. It is high time, devilishly high time, to get down more quickly to the newspaper and the little journal. As for the

* See the previous letter. Ed.

little journal we are asking little of you: find us a chief secretary and one or two contributions 271. Is it really so difficult to arrange this? So I await news.

I hope that the matter will now be settled with the discontented. There is no reason to quarrel over.

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Written November 10, 1910

Sent from Paris to Petersburg

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXV

Printed from typescript